Web Design & Development http://www.holyguard.net/rss Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:01:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt (info@mypapit.net) http://www.holyguard.net/en/detail/blog/12-undocumented-tricks-for-google-buzz/2/56/366/ holyguard.net - So. Google just recently announced Google Buzz. I’m not sure about you, but I didn’t see this coming. Sure, Google was bound to start a social network of some sort at some time; but, I didn’t think it’d be this soon! After spending a few hours on Google Buzz, we’re proud to present you with 12 simple tricks to help give you a better Buzz. Before you start drinking the Google juice, though, make sure you choose a designated driver! (Ya, I know. Bad joke.)   Enough talk. Here are your tricks: 1. Formatting Buzz doesn’t have any WYSIWYG editor built in, but it does allow some basic formatting. Currently, we’ve discovered three different formatting options: bold, italic, and strike-through. If you find any more, please place them in the comments. To make something bold, simply enclosing it with asterisks (*) Ex: “This is *bold*!” will become “This is bold!” In the same way, if you’d like to italicize something use the underscore (_). Ex: “This is _very important_” becomes “This is very important.” (Be careful, though, because on IRC chats,… Luigi Nori Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:01:34 +0100 http://www.holyguard.net/en/detail/blog/upgrade-to-alsa-1020-on-ubuntu-jaunty-904/2/56/356/ holyguard.net - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (known by the acronym ALSA) is a Linux kernel component intended to replace the original Open Sound System (OSS) for providing device drivers for sound cards. ALSA has the following significant features: * Efficient support for all types of audio interfaces, from consumer sound cards to professional multichannel audio interfaces. * Fully modularized sound drivers. * SMP and thread-safe design. * User space library (alsa-lib) to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality. * Support for the older Open Sound System (OSS) API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs. If you are experiencing sound issues on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 or just want the latest version, you may want to upgrade to ALSA 1.0.20 (Ubuntu Jaunty comes with Alsa version 1.0.18rc3 - you can check this by typing this in a terminal: cat /proc/asound/version). Read on!   How to Upgrade to ALSA 1.0.20 1. Upgrading ALSA needs compiling so the first thing we need to do is install the necessary tools to compile along with the kernel headers. Open a terminal and paste the following 2 commands: sudo apt-get -y install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext xmltosudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-`uname -r` 2. Use the terminal to navigate to your home folder and download the ALSA files: cd ~wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.20.tar.bz2wget… Luigi Nori Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:01:34 +0100 http://www.holyguard.net/en/detail/blog/10-tips-for-creating-an-optimized-landing-page/2/56/335/ holyguard.net - Building a great landing page should be on top of your priority list if you want your website visitors transformed into customers. While a great looking website can grab the attention of your visitors, a strong landing page will keep them involved and get them to buy your products/services. Wikipedia defines a landing page as: The page that appears when a potential customer clicks on an advertisement or a search-engine result link. The page will usually display content that is a logical extension of the advertisement or link, and that is optimized to feature specific keywords or phrases for indexing by search engines. Maximize Revenue with YieldBuild! Wikipedia's definition sums it up nicely but there is certainly more to a great landing page then relevant and keyword rich content. Here are 10 things that you should be looking at when optimizing a landing page: - Relevant Content A landing page's content should be directly related to organic search results, PPC campaign, anchor text in inbound links and any other targeted inbound advertising, online and offline. If people don't get what they expect, they will be more likely to leave. - Multiple Landing Pages A landing page shouldn't necessarily be your homepage. In many instances a homepage is a good… Luigi Nori Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:01:34 +0100 http://www.holyguard.net/en/detail/blog/website-development-processes/2/56/327/ holyguard.net - Web Site Development Process - The life-cycle steps Like the traditional software development, the process of web site development can also be divided into different life cycle steps. This can help to format the team effectively, and the standards and procedures can be adopted to achieve maximum quality. This article explains the steps of development which can be possibly arranged as a process of web engineering. This is just a guideline to help you, to know, how a process can be done. The steps may vary from application to application. Note:Throughout this text, The words web sites, web applications, web based applications and Intranet/extranets are interchangeable. A system development process can follow a number of standard or company specific frameworks, methodologies, modeling tools and languages. Software development life cycle normally comes with some standards which can fulfill the needs of any development team. Like software, web sites can also be developed with certain methods with some changes and additions with the existing software development process. Let us see the steps involve in any web site development. 1. Analysis: Once a customer is started discussing his requirements, the team gets into it, towards the preliminary requirement analysis. As the web site is going to be a… Luigi Nori Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:01:34 +0100 http://www.holyguard.net/en/detail/blog/10-ways-to-improve-your-web-page-performance/2/56/290/ holyguard.net - There are a million and one ways to boost your website’s performance. The methods vary and some are more involved than others. The three main areas that you can work on are: hardware (your web server), server-side scripting optimization (PHP, Python, Java), and front-end performance (the meat of the web page). This article primarily focuses on front-end performance since it’s the easiest to work on and provides you the most bang for your buck. Why focus on front-end performance? The front-end (i.e. your HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images) is the most accessible part of your website. If you’re on a shared web hosting plan, you might not have root (or root-like) access to the server and therefore can’t tweak and adjust server settings. And even if you do have the right permissions, web server and database engineering require specialized knowledge to give you any immediate benefits. It’s also cheap. Most of the front-end optimization discussed can be done at no other cost but your time. Not only is it inexpensive, but it’s the best use of your time because front-end performance is responsible for a very large part of a website’s response time. With this in mind, here are a… Luigi Nori Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:01:34 +0100 http://www.holyguard.net/en/detail/blog/a-good-italian-restaurant-in-palma-de-mallorca/2/56/249/ holyguard.net - For all Freaks who love to eat well, and like Italian food, there are some places in Palma de Majorca where it is possible to enjoy something really good. In particular, yesterday me and my girlfriend went to eat in "Mamma Mia", a small restaurant/pizzeria in Casco Antiguo. The owner of this restaurant is named Massimo and cooks many varieties of pizza and pasta.There, it is possible to eat the traditional "Funghi porcini ',mushrooms of Italian mountains. I do a bit of advertise to this restaurant that really deserves. And for me, being Italian, is one of all that I liked more. It hurts when some blogs here in mallorca "speaks" about other restaurants that abserts to do Italian cuisine (i have had a real experience to eat something that wasn't what they wrote in menu), but that people does not have a fucking idea of what is to eat a real Italian Plate. Luigi Nori Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:01:34 +0100 http://www.holyguard.net/en/detail/blog/my-first-post-of-the-new-holyguardnet-50-version/2/56/228/ holyguard.net - Maybe i'm crazy, maybe a dreamer... but the idea to create a new website with hi traffic optimization, a cache engine, multilingual and a new template engine was really strong. I have more nights of work to do... Luigi Nori Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:01:34 +0100